Judge: Sheriff Joe can't use smuggling tactic

The policy allowed people who paid to be smuggled into the US to be charged under Arizona's immigrant smuggling law as conspirators in the crime

Associated Press

PHOENIX — A federal judge has barred the use of a county policy that allows people who paid to be smuggled into the U.S. to be charged under Arizona's immigrant smuggling law as conspirators in the crime.

U.S. District Judge Robert Broomfield's ruling on Friday said Maricopa County's interpretation of the 2005 state law conflicts with federal law.